Hospital receives K350,000 to buy medicine, supplies

By JAMES GUMUNO
THE Western Highlands health authority (WHPHA) has received a K350,000 boost from the Sir Brian Bell Foundation.
The timely donation was the result of a brief meeting held in Mt Hagen recently between WHPHA chief executive David Vorst, acting director of clinical network and Mt Hagen hospital manager Jane Holden and Sir Brian Bell Foundation executive director Ian Clough about financial difficulties faced by the hospital.
WHPHA said that they would now be able to purchase essential drugs for patients which the Area Medical Store at Dobel in Mt Hagen could not supply.
They said that they would purchase new urology equipment, build a shed for an incinerator and diesel to allow its fleet to stay on the road.
The hospital said the foundation provided much needed funds to meet costs largely supporting the regional hospital as well as purchasing a new generator for the Bukapena health centre in Mul-Baiyer.
Holden was grateful for the financial assistance saying it would help solve some of the urgent financial needs the hospital and rural facilities had.
She said the foundation had a history of supporting the hospital when in August 2017, it donated 39 cartons of drapes, gowns, bedsheets and drawsheets, as well as supporting attendance for staff at professional meetings twice.
Holden said the donation was unexpected and thanked Brian Bell Foundation’s chief executive officer Bronwyn Wright and Clough for their generosity.